Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities de Julius Greve

Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies

Editat de Julius Greve, Florian Zappe

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This collection of essays discusses genre fiction and film within the discursive framework of the environmental humanities and analyses the convergent themes of spatiality, climate change, and related anxieties concerning the future of human affairs, as crucial for any understanding of current forms of “weird” and “fantastic” literature and culture. Given their focus on the culturally marginal, unknown, and “other,” these genres figure as diagnostic modes of storytelling, outlining the latent anxieties and social dynamics that define a culture’s “structure of feeling” at a given historical moment. The contributions in this volume map the long and continuous tradition of weird and fantastic fiction as a seismograph for eco-geographical turmoil from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, offering innovative and insightful ecocritical readings of H. P. Lovecraft, Harriet Prescott Spofford, China Miéville, N. K. Jemisin, Thomas Ligotti, and Jeff VanderMeer, among others.

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ISBN-13: 9783030281151
ISBN-10: 3030281159
Pagini: 249
Ilustrații: XII, 208 p. 1 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. Introduction: Ecologies and Geographies of the Weird and the Fantastic, Julius Greve and Florian Zappe.- 2. Naturhorror and the Weird, Eugene Thacker.- 3. Uncanny New Worlds in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “D’Outre Mort” and “The Black Bess”, Michaela Keck.- 4. The Weird and the Wild: Media Ecologies of the Outré-Normative, Julius Greve.- 5. Queering the Weird: Unnatural Participations and the Mucosal in H. P. Lovecraft and Occulture, Patricia MacCormack.- 6. Geological Insurrections: Politics of Planetary Weirding from China Miéville to N. K. Jemisin, Moritz Ingwersen.- 7. “Indifference would be such a relief”: Race and Weird Geography in Victor LaValle and Matt Ruff’s Dialogues with H. P. Lovecraft,James Kneale.- 8. The Oceanic Weird, Wet Ontologies, and Hydro-Criticism in China Miéville’s The Scar, Jolene Mathieson.- 9. “Through the eyes of Area X”: (Dis)locating Ecological Hope via New Weird Spatiality, Gry Ulstein.- 10. Inexistent Ink: Michael Cisco and Quentin Meillassoux on Writing Worlds, Ben Woodard.- 11. Notes on the Alluring Weirdness of (Materialist) Rumination and Regurgitation: Reading Ariana Reines and Jamie Stewart, Marius Henderson.- 12. Spaces of Communal Misery: The Weird Post-Capitalism of Beasts of the Southern Wild, Marlon Lieber.

Notă biografică

Julius Greve is Lecturer and Research Associate at the Institute for English and American Studies, University of Oldenburg, Germany, and the author of Shreds of Matter: Cormac McCarthy and the Concept of Nature (2018).
Florian Zappe is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany. He has published monographs on William S. Burroughs and Kathy Acker and a variety of essays on (post)modern literature, cinema, and theory.

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This collection of essays discusses genre fiction and film within the discursive framework of the environmental humanities and analyses the convergent themes of spatiality, climate change, and related anxieties concerning the future of human affairs, as crucial for any understanding of current forms of “weird” and “fantastic” literature and culture. Given their focus on the culturally marginal, unknown, and “other,” these genres figure as diagnostic modes of storytelling, outlining the latent anxieties and social dynamics that define a culture’s “structure of feeling” at a given historical moment. The contributions in this volume map the long and continuous tradition of weird and fantastic fiction as a seismograph for eco-geographical turmoil from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, offering innovative and insightful ecocritical readings of H. P. Lovecraft, Harriet Prescott Spofford, China Miéville, N. K. Jemisin, Thomas Ligotti, and Jeff VanderMeer, among others.

Caracteristici

Connects Continental theories like new materialism, posthumanism, and speculative realism with ecocriticism and geocriticism Defines the generic, environmental, and spatial bounds of the weird and fantastic in fiction and film Draws on H.P. Lovecraft’s writing to explore emerging areas of genre fiction such as “eco-horror”